This X-ray image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2597, taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows a vast bright cloud of hot gas with two cavities on the upper left and lower right, about 100,000 light years from the center of the cluster. CREDIT: NASA/CXC/Ohio U./B. McNamara et al.

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